03 Profile
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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Cancer
Dan Knowles: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Dan Knowles
Chief executive, Brain Tumour Research
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press citations on 1 topic since 14 Oct 2026 · last quoted 14 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Dan Knowles: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Chief executive, Brain Tumour Research
- Quoted on
- Cancer
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 14 Oct 2026
04 The signal · where Dan Knowles sits on cancer
Ranked 64= of 100 voices quoted in the press on cancer, level with 36 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Prof Peter JohnsonClinicianNational Clinical Director for Cancer, NHS England23 - 2
Professor Victoria Tzortziou BrownClinicianChair of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)17 - 3=Dr Claire FullerClinicianNational Medical Director, NHS England15
- 64=Sarah GwynneClinicianConsultant clinical oncologist, South West Wales Cancer Centre2
- 64=Miroslaw BoberAcademic2
- 64=Dan KnowlesSector leaderChief executive, Brain Tumour Research2
- 64=Tom RoutledgeClinicianConsultant thoracic surgeon, HCA Healthcare UK's London Bridge Hospital2
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 64=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Dan Knowles has said
By outlet · linked articles
- edinburghnews.scotsman.com1
- thenational.scot1
Where Dan Knowles has been quoted
- 01Scottish swimmer meets PM as Government announces brain cancer reformsthenational.scot · 14 Oct 2026
- 02Edinburgh swimmer Archie Goodburn meets with Andy Burnham amid brain tumour pleaedinburghnews.scotsman.com · 14 Oct 2026
Verbatim
“Government has seized the opportunity to place research at the heart of transforming outcomes for brain tumour patients.”
“Government has seized the opportunity to place research at the heart of transforming outcomes for brain tumour patients.”
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